If you are using Dragon Medical Practice edition 2 and you need to bring your profile over to a new computer, the task may seem daunting at first. What about your commands? What about your hotkeys? How will you bring over the trained vocab you have done over the years?

Worry not, for it is incredibly simple. All you need is a USB stick and a few minutes.

First, go to the computer where you currently have Dragon installed. Go to profile, “Manage User Profiles”, click your profile to highlight it, then click the “Advanced” button. Choose “Export” and then send it to your USB stick.

Take the USB stick, pop it in the new computer. You then follow the same steps. Go to profile, “Manage User Profiles”, click your profile to highlight it, then click the “Advanced” button. This time choose “Import”. Select the file from the location on the USB and let Dragon do the rest.

Got this call regarding Dragon MEdical Practice Edition 2, and the physician couldn’t work his power mic II for some odd reason.

Ok, so this is just a quick reminder to check your current dictation source if you think your microphone might be malfunctioning. By clicking “profile”, “manage user profile”, you will see the microphone type under “source”. If yours is not there, select your profile, then hit “source”, “new”, and then add the microphone of your choosing.

Dragon Medical works with most windows-based EHRs such as Epic®, Cerner®, GE®, McKesson® and many more listed below which self-report compatibility to EHRscope.com. Note that EHRscope.com is not a Nuance-sponsored site, and therefore Nuance has not validated claims made by vendors regarding compatibility with Dragon Medical.

If there are 25 or more practitioners at a practice, then you must use Dragon Medical Enterprise edition (formerly known as Dragon Medical 360). With this edition, the software is placed on the server, rather than the end-users personal computer.

Dragon has a variety of commands you can use to enter punctuation marks and symbols as you dictate.

For example, if you dictate:

I use Dragon to dictate [comma] format [comma] edit and correct all my e-mail [period]

Dragon will type:

I use Dragon to dictate, format, edit and correct all my e-mail.

Dragon will also add punctuation and appropriate capitalization in possessive words and common last names like “John’s hat” or “Nancy O’Connell.”

To dictate a word ending with (apostrophe) ’s, just say it as you normally would. For example, “that’s enough.” For words that already end in “s,” say “apostrophe.” For example, “I met my friends [apostrophe] children.”

While you must explicitly dictate most punctuation, Dragon can automatically insert commas and periods (“full stop” outside US/Canada) if you have selected the “Automatically add commas and periods” box on the Formatting dialog box. This feature is called “natural punctuation.”

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